...And laid my hand upon thy mane' — | as I do here,. | APOSTROPHE TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. (BURKE.) It is now sixteen, or seventeen years', | since I...more delightful vis.ion. | I saw her just above the horrzon, | decorating, and cheering the elevated sphere , | she just began to move, in — glittering...

...the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it. " And surely.never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy."* All his writings, but especially his later ones, abound in examples of the abuse of this style, in...

...being safe "beneath the shadow of his wing." SURPRISES. ' Behold a man much wronged." COM. OF ERRORS. " I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering...morning star, full of life and splendour and joy." BURKE. UNCONSCIOUS of the events that were occurring at Lansdale, Medwyn, at the urgent and almost...

...reader, on perusing such details, is not reminded of the impassioned outburst of the eloquent Burke : " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy....

...of France.} [From • R*ueotioni on the Revolution In France.'] It ie now sixteen or seventeen yean so c".0c".`J!. Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation...

...Revolution; and the quotaBURKE. " It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb,...seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her juat above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering...

...contempt. [Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.'] [From ' Reflection» on the Revolution in France.'] one all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, b dauphmesa, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch,...

...pardon something to the spirit of liberty. LESSON CLXVII. Apostrophe to the Queen of France. BURKE. IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the...glittering like the morning star; full of life, and splendor, and joy. O, what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion...

...writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer : — " And surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly...morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy." The sentence is truly harmonious, and the images seem to be snatched hastily from the fragments of...

...celebrated comparison of the Queen of France, though going to the verge of chaste style, hardly passes it ' And, surely, never lighted on this orb, which she...the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy,'"10 — Pp. 175 — 180. <*•'• " It is another characteristic of this great writer, that the...